[gwright]

> Would you criminalize 'approaching' someone

That is a very misleading summarization. It is a short article. The law requires several conditions:

    * approach a police office
    * approach has to occur "knowingly or intentionally"
    * the officer has to be "lawfully engaged in the execution of his official duties"
    * the approach has to happen *after* the person has been ordered "stop approaching or retreat

[seeknotfind]

Well to be fair to Mike, I also summarized these details with "approaching".

If someone is approaching me, I'm trying to do something else, they're harassing me, should it really be okay?

The other night, I was walking down the sidewalk, and some dude I've never seen held up the first bump and said what's up!? I was surprised, kind of kept on walking and he says "fuck you too". That's okay, but if I'm like get away, and he's getting in my way, following me, then yeah, fuck off. Cop sees that and he still doesn't stop, why not a ticket. That's better luck for fist bump bro than getting popped in the jaw.

It sucks cops abuse some things, and some people harass cops. It's not one way or the other, my read between the lines is this article is one sided.

[chrismcb]

"lawfully engaged in the execution of his official duties" so .. and in duty officer? But if it requires the officer to tell the person to stop or retreat(that isn't vague) then why do we need this law? There is already a law that you must obey lawful orders.

[garyfirestorm]

Yes but how do we make them obey unlawful orders? A: by introducing a vague language in form of a vague law.